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Future of the Mobile Web

mclancy — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:13:12 +0000

Last week we hosted an event loftily entitled "The Future of the Mobile Web" at the Dublin Convention Centre.

The best of breakingdevelopment conference

ronan — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:45:40 +0000

As many of you know, the breakingdevelopment conference took place in Nashville, Tennessee over the last few days. It appears to have been a really seminal conference with 13 leading mobile web developers speaking.

Others have already put together summaries of the conference but I thought I'd link to what I thought were the most interest presentations.

DeviceAtlas & jQueryMobile

daniel.hunt — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 06:00:00 +0000

The first Alpha release of jQueryMobile was announced today, to great fanfare, and the mobile web world is already on fire with the thoughts of what this will mean to them.

A little bit of background...

Originally developed by John Resig, jQueryMobile's big brother "jQuery" is now in use by pretty much anyone who implements advanced JavaScript capabilities on their site.

The breadth and diversity of the mobile web

ronan — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:19:40 +0000

For a mass medium to really get traction and achieve critical mass it is important that creating content is as easy as consuming it—the growth of the medium tracks the availability of the content creation tools. In the early days of the web hackers used home-grown web servers to serve content and a copy of Vi to author it. It wasn't long before Apache and other web servers eased the job of serving the content but the creation of good web content remained the preserve of experts.

Mobile Web Development & Device Detection

daniel.hunt — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:02:06 +0000

Peter-Paul Koch, also known as @ppk, has posted a three part blog-post on the State of mobile web development [ one | two | three ], in response to Mike Rowehl's recent (correct & justified)

Calling all app developers - get the recognition you deserve

ruadhan — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:52:20 +0000

That's right, Ireland's first and only dedicated apps awards, The Appys, are coming to town. These awards were set up to give the best apps developers the recognition they deserve. The competition is open to all, so if you've developed an app on any platform, or have been involved in the development of an app, then you can enter. The categories are:

Best augmented reality/location services app
Best business solutions app
Best "branded" app
Best gaming app
Best media app
Best social networking app

DeviceAtlas API 1.4

daniel.hunt — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:36:45 +0000

This week was an important one for DeviceAtlas - we finally launched the new 1.4 version of our API!

Why 1.4?

The mobile web is constantly evolving, and with it, device detection needs to evolve too. With significant evolution in device capabilities, and large structural developments in certain device headers, the new DeviceAtlas API provides a highly flexible platform to cater for this growth, both now and well into the future.

Meet goMobi - A New Content Mobilization Platform

ruadhan — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:33:25 +0000

Here in dotMobi we've just launched our latest product. The culmination of months and months of hard work by the dotMobi team has resulted in the release of our spanking new content mobilization platform: goMobi.

You can find all the official blurb over at http://gomobi.info along with some videos of our CEO and CTO talking about the product. What I aim to do here is to give an overview, from a developer's viewpoint, so that you can find out what there is in goMobi to appeal to the developer in you.

A quick introduction

DeviceAtlas & HTML5

daniel.hunt — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:50:37 +0000

HTML5 is the brand new version of HTML, which contains a number of differences to it's predecessor.

Nexus One: Where is Android at?

ruadhan — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:02:30 +0000

With the announcement of the new GooglePhone, which promises to be the best Android device yet and by all early reports at least comparable with the iPhone 3GS, it seems appropriate to stop to take a look around to see where Android is at.

We start with the breakdown of Android Platform distribution, based on access to the Android Market.

Android versions (Source: http://developer.android.com)